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Hi All, I install veeam 13 appliance, and connect to it with Veeam Backup & Replication Console installled on windows, I can find backup job log on veeam 13 appliance (var/log/), but if my backup job created from windows console, I can’t find log , I check %ProgramData%\Veeam\Backup , but not find backup job log by job name, Backup jobs aren't synchronized between the web interface and the console, right?So where can I find the log files for backup jobs generated by the console?Thanks.

Last week I attended RSAC and as stated in a previous post had a great time.However, nothing in life is perfect and I had one conversation that got me worried. The person in question is much more “in the know” than I am when it comes to the IT industry. He claimed that blogging is basically dead now. It has been washed away by a tidal wave of AI generated content and has permanently removed the need for real bloggers. “No one believes that anyone actually writes anything anymore”. Along with that IT communities are under threat, if you don’t need bloggers and content creators then why have these groups of people? The can be easily and cheaply replaced by AI Agents. I wanted to ask everyone here what they thought and if there is anything we can do to save our brands?For my part I have decided to always try and post a video along with any written content that I create. The BVLOG!! If you can pronounce that you should win an award right off the bat!

My belated contribution to World Backup Day."Man kütt ja zu nix" - as they say in the Rhineland ( You Never Get Around To It ). I learned the value of backups very early in my professional life.As a dual-study student during my first practical phase, I accidentally deleted the root directory of a server - specifically, the server that managed access control for all branches in western Germany.Luckily, my colleagues didn't behead their panicked young employee, but remained calm and restored the deleted data from a backup. At that time, it wasn't a Veeam backup; it must have been either a late ADSM version or an early TSM version.In any case, this experience has shaped me ever since: Firstly: It was great to have had such colleagues at that time. And secondly: Always have a backup of your data and systems! Many years later, data backup is my main professional task.Thanks to Veeam, regular system and data ba

IntroIn a previous article I wrote about the type of storage a customer can use and write their backup to.Some days ago, a user in the Veeam Community asked why, according to Veeam's calculator, S3 object storage is no longer more efficient in terms of space (with immutability and GFS) than storage using XFS/ReFS technology.After answering, I decided to explore the topic further by putting myself in the shoes of a customer who has to make a choice in terms of the costs associated with the space used. That's why I want to tell you what happened with a customer.When I start a new backup infrastructure project, there always comes a time when I have to decide what type of storage repository to use. When I submit a plan to the customer, I often hear them say: Why should I spend more an

How NTP Architecture Impacts MFA in Veeam Software Appliances — And What Happens When Clocks DriftMulti‑Factor Authentication (MFA) in Veeam’s software appliances relies heavily on accurate system time. This is because MFA one‑time passwords (TOTPs) are time‑based. If the appliance clock drifts even slightly, MFA will break — often in confusing ways.In this post, we break down:What NTP is doing inside the Veeam Software Appliance Why MFA fails when clocks drift How time desynchronization can escalate Worst‑case recovery when you’re completely locked outWhat NTP Architecture Is Doing Inside Veeam Software AppliancesVeeam Software Appliances use chrony (the NTP client on Rocky Linux) to synchronize system time with configured NTP servers. This ensures that all time‑dependent security function

Hey! My company currently has a Veeam Premium license which includes all of the core Veeam products. I really want to certify to showcase my skills and improve them too, but they are refusing the pay 2.5k for the course material + exam.I can see there is a Veeam University Pro for customers and partners but to be perfectly honest it seems all cluttered the some of the links are dead and return to dead ends.What options do I have and is there a cheaper way to certify?Cheers,LGH.

Yet another opportunity to highlight the importance of backing up data – whether business or personal – is that the backup system must be an integral part of the IT infrastructure, not just an afterthought.I have written this post in Italian to raise awareness among Italian companies once again.https://blog.luvisi.it/world-backup-day-5d09dc597519 ​@Madi.Cristil ​@safiya 

While responding to a post, I figured I’d try to see if i could get all of the email accounts tied to jobs in my Veeam environment to assist.This script will also show the attached Copy and Tape jobs, so I’ll try to update it with additional logic time permitting. Either way, It will show if you (or others) have email alerts setup in Veeam jobs.  I plan to update if i can have it show Warning, Error, and Success enabled. $emailPattern = '[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}'function Get-EmailsFromObject { param( [Parameter(Mandatory)] $obj, [string]$JobType = "Unknown" ) $json = $obj | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 5 -Compress -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if ($json) { $matches = ($json | Select-String -Pattern $emailPattern -AllMatches).Matches foreach ($m in $matches) { [PSCustomObj

 Today, March 31, is World Backup Day. This date exists because, even today, I still see many companies continuing to lose critical data. In the vast majority of cases, these losses are not related to a lack of technology, but rather to strategy and process failures, and especially to an underestimation of risk.And these risks are not limited to lost files or servers with software issues. They involve systemic failures in operations, security, and even architecture. Real CaseI will cover a real case I went through recently, where I will share more details not only about the problem, but also about how it was possible to recover from the disaster. The Scenario

This article is geared towards the "backup admin" and how no one really wants that job, but someone has to do it. In my current role, in addition to my other responsibilities, I serve as the backup admin in our lab environment. Although it's not as stressful as past backup admin positions, I still need to standardize and have things in order in the event of a restore or server outage.Let’s be honest—nobody gets into backup and recovery because they’re chasing excitement.But somehow, backup environments still manage to create plenty of it:Failed jobs at 2AM Storage filling up unexpectedly Restore requests turning into investigations That one job that’s been “warning” for… way too long That’s not the kind of excitement you want. In Day 2 operations, the goal shifts. You’re no longer just getting backups running—you’re trying to make the entire system predictable, repeatable, and honestly… bo

31.3 is “Backup Day” Why?Because next day is first of April? 😊 So, tidying up could resolve into unwanted deletion of your data, which could lead into surprise, after you find out that and this is not just as a joke😊It’s nightmare …In nowadays we are trying to keep our platforms, environments most resilient as possible from ransomware attacks.BUTWhat is worse than ransomware attack?Are you really prepared to cover all scenarios?Sometimes it could be even bug of your nightmare in vendors software/firmware, which is not the thing that you never think about.ANDCombination with ransomware attack? Admins have no clue what is correct.What happened?Customer found out that has infected VMs – all Windows and Linux/Unix Systems. Production was stopped. It did not take lon

It was Christmas Eve. Most people were wrapping gifts, winding down, and logging off early. But for one of our clients  a construction company with decades of project data, intellectual property, and live customer records, that night would become one of the most terrifying in the company's history. A double-encryption ransomware attack had just taken down every system. Completely dark. Several other construction companies across the region were affected by the same attack that night. What made this attack different wasn't just its timing. The attackers were sophisticated. They didn't just encrypt the production environment they deleted the on-site Veeam Backup & Replication server, wiped the local backup copies, and went after the cloud backup repository too. I was a deliberate, calculated attempt to leave no recovery path. They almost succeeded. When the Call Came InAs a managed service provider, we know that dat

Hi,Over the past week, the checkpoint removal process has been completing with warnings. I receive notifications 2–3 times, and then it returns to normal and completes successfully without warnings.However, for the past 4 days, I’ve been receiving the same warnings again. I’ve checked everything, and everything seems normal. When I review the statistics, there’s no clear reason for these warnings.Could someone help me understand what might be causing this issue?Thank you in advance.

Hi community,I’m running into an issue with Custom Roles in Veeam Backup & Replication v13, and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction.I’m trying to create a restricted Backup Admin who should only see and manage specific backup jobs and specific repositories. However, I’m experiencing the following behavior:If I configure the custom role with limited permissions (selected jobs and/or selected repositories), → the user does not see any jobs at all. If I grant broader permissions (effectively “Full Access”), → the jobs appear, but then the user sees all jobs, not just the intended subset.I’ve tried several configurations, but the result is always the same:Either zero jobs are visible, or all jobs become visible when access is unrestricted.My goal is to allow a delegated admin to operate only a defined set of backup jobs and use only the repositories assigned to them — nothing else.Has

Is there a way to get better reporting for usage on hardened repositories? I recently had a Wasabi issue after upgrading to 12 and our console was showing 29.7tb’s of usage which is right under our 30tb bucket. Actual bucket size was 128tb which lead to additional billing.

  As long as backups are running, logs are about as popular as a dashcam: you see them, you know they’re there—and you hope you’ll never really need them. But the moment a job fails, a service stops unexpectedly, or the software “just starts acting weird,” logs become the only reliable witness. They show what happened, when it happened, how other components reacted — and often why something was triggered in the first place. In troubleshooting, a complete and properly retained log history often determines whether you can narrow down an outage or error within minutes— or whether you end up relying on assumptions, screenshots, and “it didn’t feel like it was like this before” statements. That’s why in this article we’ll look at: how to collect Veeam logs correctly (suppo

  World Backup Day is often treated as a reminder—a checklist item to verify that backups exist, are recent, and are recoverable. But for those of us working in infrastructure and disaster recovery, it represents something much more concrete: the difference between operational continuity and complete outage. This is not a theoretical discussion. This is a real incident.This is my experienceThe Incident: Ransomware at ScaleRecently, I was involved in managing a critical ransomware attack that impacted a large virtualized environment. After an initial assessment, it became clear that we were dealing with a full-scale ransomware infection.Roughly “150 virtual machines” in a VMware environment were affected. The situation escalated quickly, requiring immediate containmen

Recently, ​@Madi.Cristil created a post asking members of the Veeam Community who have been "heroes" in performing their backup duties to share their stories. If you haven't yet seen her post, you can read it below:https://community.veeam.com/discussion-boards-66/backup-heroes-wanted-join-the-world-backup-day-contest-2026-12918?postid=90737#post90737World Backup Day is coming and, like they've done the past few years, Veeam is asking for the Community to share posts about how Veeam Data Platform has been used to meet a need at your organization, or even home!  My story isn't too extravagant, but it did meet a crucial need at my organization.We had an employee get terminated a while back for potentially suspect activity with a vendor. Upon being informed of this activity, senior administrators were tasked to look into any network accounts which could have access to our environment. After meticulously ski

If we use forward forever incremental backup on the tape, can we disable the full backup schedule? 

we are trying to configure the agent backup of the backup server VEEAM but getting below errorFailed Unable to install backup agent: failed to connect to VEEAM Error: The user name or password is incorrect. Failed to connect to share '\\10.1.0.2.1\ADMIN$'.  Is this configuration   not recommended ?

Hello, I currently have an R740 with a NetApp E Series directly attached and am looking to use it as a hardened repo (rocky os). I am concerned that the 740 is near end of life, so wondering how difficult and what would the steps be if I was to replace the server with a new one in a year or two down the line? 

If you want to take your Veeam career to the next level, you can rely on Veeam’s education platform, Veeam University Pro.I’ve just enrolled in the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Essentials course, and here are my first impressions.  There are three tabs on the left side: the Path tab, where you can navigate through the lessons; the Learners tab, where you can see the members; and the Discuss tab, where you can post questions to be answered by the expert team. This means you’ll be assisted by a real person.The platform is easy to use. You simply click on the desired lesson and watch the video. The videos are high quality, and the trainer speaks very clearly.Sub

Physical Linux servers are everywhere in environments that use Veeam. File servers, domain controllers, application servers, database hosts, monitoring appliances, NTP servers -- the list of workloads that run on bare metal Linux and never get virtualized keeps growing. And yet the Windows Agent gets most of the documentation, most of the community posts, and most of the institutional knowledge. This article covers the Linux Agent from deployment through protection group policy to bare metal recovery -- the parts that are actually different from the Windows Agent, the Linux-specific gotchas that bite people, and the recovery process that the documentation treats as obvious but really isn't.Three Modes, Three Different Management ExperiencesVeeam Agent for Linux runs in one of three modes depending on how you deploy it. The mode determines how the agent is configured, how backup jobs are managed, and what recovery options y

Last week I attended my first RSAC in San Francisco. To say it was a great experience would be the understatement of the year.The conference is enormous, and you can tell just by walking around downtown as the streets were filled with people sporting their RSAC badges. I quietly slipped mine off whenever I ventured outside the convention center. Wearing it felt like broadcasting to the city: "I'm from out of town — please rob, scam, or at least aggressively inconvenience me." Better to blend in with the local hipster cyclists. More on that later.AI Everywhere (And I Mean Everywhere)AI dominated the conference floor. Nearly every booth referenced it, the street advertisements were themed around it, and by day two I half-expected to find an AI-powered fixture in the restroom. (In some parts of North America they call it a "restroom" — in Toronto we say "washroom." My theory is that in some locations companies work their employees so hard that the

Hello.I have three servers: one is EnterpriseManager, the second is VeeamBackup, and the third has the Veeam console installed. When I launch the Veeam console on the backup server, I get the error "failed to load license from backup services." I looked at the logs and see that the client versions match. I see that a connection attempt is being made, but the connection is being closed. I don't understand why. I tried TNC fqdn for the backup server - port 9392, as well as port 9396, and there were no errors..  I changed the names and IP addresses in the logs. I don't think they're needed for analysis. CODElog uploadfiles